Insurers Offer Competing Plan to Rescue PG&E from Bankruptcy July 25, 2019 SAN FRANCISCO — Insurance companies contending that Pacific Gas & Electric owes them more than $20 billion from wildfire claims...
ConEd Faces Expanded Probe After Heat Wave Forces Power Shutdown July 22, 2019 By Will Wade and Brian Eckhouse Consolidated Edison Inc. said it would be ready for the heat wave. It wasn’t, and instead was forced to shut...
ConEd Starts to Shed Light on Why NYC Got Plunged Into the Dark July 16, 2019 By Will Wade and David Baker It started with a broken cable. Sometime before 6:47 p.m. on Saturday, a 13,000-volt underground power line at New York...
Thousands Left in the Dark During NYC Power Outage July 15, 2019 NEW YORK — On the anniversary of a 1977 blackout that left most of New York City without power, a...
PG&E, Edison May Not Get California Help on Fires by July 12 July 8, 2019 By Romy Varghese California’s biggest utilities — PG&E Corp., Edison International and Sempra Energy — may not get the help they need to...
‘Avian Incident’ Knocks Out 84% of Massive California Solar Farm June 20, 2019 By Millicent Dent An “avian incident” sparked a fire at one of California’s biggest solar farms, affecting 1,200 acres and knocking out 84%...
Tornadoes Rip Through Kansas After One Killed, Scores Hurt by Ohio Twisters May 29, 2019 BROOKVILLE, Ohio — Several tornadoes reportedly touched down on Tuesday evening in Kansas to damage homes, uproot trees and rip...
One Dead, Dozens Hurt as Tornadoes Flatten Buildings in Ohio May 28, 2019 By Rich McKay Tornadoes pulverized western Ohio early on Tuesday, killing one person, injuring scores of others and requiring emergency officials to send...
Thunderstorms Strike East Coast, Leave Thousands without Power April 15, 2019 Severe thunderstorms blasted the U.S. East Coast with gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour on Monday morning,...
Deaths Spark Governor’s Call for Generators in Florida Nursing Homes September 26, 2017 By GARY FINEOUT After 11 nursing home residents died in the sweltering heat of hurricane-induced power outages, Florida’s nursing home industry is now...